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AIMCO IS THE WORST COMPANY DO NOT LIVE IN THEIR BUILDINGS THEY WILL SCAM YOU! I’m writing on every possible place that this is a terrible company just so it is clear that this is a bad company. They have continuously over charged us and provided horrendous service.

If I could leave negative stars I would. You must contextualize this by knowing I am a life long NYC resident, and that is for over half a lifetime. I have seen the targeted gentrification and über inflation of real estate in this city that relied on abusive tactics against rent stabilized tenants (which used to be the majority of non luxury or older building residents) who were forced to move rather than be subjected to the types of harassment and deplorable conditions that were the primary instrument property owners utilized to be able to inflate their bottom lines. So when I say this company, SHAIMCO, as I call them, is the absolute worst (despite only recently arriving in the city), I have plenty of context with which to evaluate them.
Suffice it to say, I now find myself in the unimaginable position of actually despising not only my apartment and its building, but this entire city) to the degree that I fantasize all day about being in the wilderness, even Alaska, in order to keep from having fits of rage and being overcome by disgust for the place that was my home for so long, in a city I once loved. I never thought it possible that I could hate an inanimate object so much.
If you find yourself here because you already live at a SHAIMCO property, and wonder if your experience is shared by others, you now know it is. A quick internet search is very instructive. SHAIMCO left a trail of corpses across the country on their eastward march to NY. You will find many interesting stories, colorful ones like the one about a domestic violence victim who was evicted for having called the cops against her batterer, and to add insult to injury, is later sued by the company for breaking her lease; the open and notorious SHAIMCO KKK member property manager (of primarily low income housing– that received government funding– occupied largely by people of color); more than 1 federal law suit involving racial discrimination; utter disregard for the city of LA and the (again mostly low income) tenants it kicked out (without permission) to raze a property (without permission); the 3 million dollar lawsuit San Fran won against them. Among others. You will find that, as a REIT, they write off much of the costs of doing business via government sponsored tax breaks. Not to mention receive government funding. We are all subsidizing this mercenary company. Just a couple of years after San Fran won the suit against them, the State of CA gave them 78 million dollars to rehab buildings they let rot. (And this is the tip of the iceberg. I haven’t yet done a systematic and thorough search for lawsuits or other ‘newsworthy’ issues.) We should all be clear on this: when it comes down to the interests of John or Jane Q. Public or those with enough capital to have purchased political capital, and most especially those who have anything to do with the stock market (as is the case with REITs), there is no contest as to which interests the government protects. Hence the blatant disregard and brazenness. Why not, if there is no meaningful accountability?
Please, if you have gotten sick while living at a SHAIMCO Property, or perhaps your pets did, send me a PM. Otherwise, RUN the other way.

AIMCO is the worst management companies I’ve dealt with. This review is not a review of this specific property, because I live in a different one in NYC, but as a company overall. They are unresponsive, slow, and do not live people renewing. They want their tenants to leave at renewal time.
They are raising my apartments rent over $ 1000/​month (35% increase) for nothing. Literally nothing has been renovated in forever. One of our bedroom’s literally has no heat, the supervisor even was shocked when he checked it out, yet nothing was fixed, luckily it wasn’t the coldest winter. And our shower gets scalding hot every 2 minutes for about 30 seconds.
The supervisor is nice and tries his best but the company doesn’t like doing anything, except ignoring requests and raising the rent.
I’m pretty easy going as long as things are somewhat fair, but come on whoever runs this management company get your head out of your ass and stop being a greedy dick.
Google «Aimco Sucks» or «Aimco Slumlord» or «Aimco reviews» you will find sites dedicated to letting people know to stay away from them, and ripoff reports.
Not sure how they are still in business, must have good lawyers. Sad Business.